Product Management

In this section, I’ll provide the academic knowledge regarding the Scrum Guide and some tests to help you better understand it.

To help you get more sense of the Product Management interviews, I also share the Interview Questions and instruction to answer.

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Scrum & Agile

The Scrum is fairly simple framework being made up of a Scrum Team consisting of a Product Owner, a Scrum Master and Developers. Correct understanding of Scrum and how to implement it is very crutial to every product team. In this series, I’ll show you how Scrum works in the most comprehensive way possible.

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Mental Notes by Steve and Sue Ann Doyle are a set of cards designed to inspire creativity and help you generate new ideas.

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

The Manifesto for Agile Software Development is a set of guiding values and principles for teams who develop software using Agile methodology.

Ticket Effort Estimation

Effort estimation is to estimate how big the task/story/bug is. This information will come in handy when we do sprint or roadmap planning.

Product Owner Certification

Although certificates are not a must-have, nor a guarantee that you will land a Product Owner job, it’s still a crucial part to look at during our Product journey.

Backlog Grooming – Backlog Refinement

Backlog grooming, also commonly referred to as backlog refinement, is the process in which the PO reviews the Product backlog to ensure that it is up-to-date.

Sprint Event – Daily, Review & Retrospective

Also known as Daily Stand-up meeting, is to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt the Sprint Backlog as necessary.

Scrum Event – Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning is a Scrum event that usually occurs at the beginning of a sprint to lay out the work to be performed for that Sprint.

Scrum Event – The Sprint

There are many events in product management and ‘Sprint’ is one of them. Each event is a formal opportunity to inspect and adapt Scrum artifacts.

Scrum team & roles

The fundamental unit of Scrum is a small team of people, called Scrum Team. This team consists of one Scrum Master, one Product Owner (PO), and Developers.

What is Scrum & Agile? Scrum theory & values

Agile is an iterative philosophy to product development that helps teams deliver value to their customers faster and with fewer headaches.

Product development glossary

You can find many many of them on the internet but just like English, 20% of the words makes up for 80% of the conversation.

What is Product management?

Before you get to know anything about Scrum & Agile and stuffs, you should be clarify on the Product management job.

Product Interview

Are you preparing for a job interview in the product management field but don’t know which questions to expect? Look no further as I’ve compiled a comprehensive list of product interview questions that cover a wide range of topics.

General Questions

These questions are very likely to be asked in any interview, especially the call with HR manager. Hence, please make sure you practice them carefully.

Product Management Questions

These questions are about your knowledge in terms of Scrum, Agile, and the product management discipline.

Leadership & Teamwork Questions

You might face these questions throughout your interviewing process. Therefore, it’s important to practice answering them well in advance.

Behavioral Questions

These questions not only test your product management skills, but also show your interpersonal and problem solving skills.

Analytics & Case Study

The Analytics & Case Study questions are not usually asked but if you are interviewing for an PM or senior position, you are likely to hear them.

Technical Questions

The technical questions are not usually asked during the PM/PM interview. They are mostly asked when you are interviewing for a technical PM/PO or a technical product (i.e. the PO at GitHub).